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Teaching Islamic Art
Khamseen Mini-Multimedia--Short Introductory Videos by Historians of Islamic Art
“Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art, which is intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen will make this material available to public audiences, with the aim to establish and expand a website with additional resources over the coming months. Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations:
Glaire Anderson, Mihrab at the Great Mosque of Córdoba
Patricia Blessing, Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
Alexander Brey, Al-Walid's Baths Qusayr Amra
Sam Bowker, The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
Ashley Dimmig, Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
Emine Fetvacı, Ottoman Illustrated Histories
Yasemin Gencer, İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
Sabiha Göloğlu, Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā'il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
Christiane Gruber, A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad's Miʿraj
Christiane Gruber, George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands
Negar Habibi, Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings
Ruba Kana'an, The Bobrinski Bucket
Heba Mostafa, Dome of the Rock Original Mosaics
Emily Neumeier, The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
Bernard O'Kane, Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
Rachel Parikh, Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu'l Fiqar, ʿAli's Miraculous Sword
Rachel Parikh, Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion
Jennifer Pruitt, Al-Aqmar Mosque
Ünver Rüstem, The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque
Marika Sardar, The Gwalior Qur'an
Marika Sardar, A Samanid Epigraphic Dish
Alex Dika Seggerman, Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard Fine Arts Library's Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection
Melis Taner, Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles
Olivia Wolf, Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern & Contemporary Case Studies
Khamseen is an ongoing project and more material will be included on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in contributing a mini multi-media file, please contact Team Khamseen at TeamKhamseen@umich.edu
Teaching Islamic Art
A Discussion of Online Resources for the Teaching of Islamic Art with Christiane Gruber, Ruba Kana'an, Michael Toler and Matt Saba
HIAA-sponsored discussion of online resources for the teaching of Islamic art on July 15th, 2020.
The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT).
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Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book, Cailah Jackson
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book
The first in-depth survey of illuminated manuscripts from Anatolia before the rise of the Ottoman Empire
- Meticulously analyses 15 Persian and Arabic manuscripts including the Mas̲navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1278), the Qaramanid Qur’an (1314-15) and the Dīvān-i Kabīr of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1368)
- Translates new and unpublished primary sources on the cultural history of the period, including manuscript colophons, dedications and endowment notes
- Includes a comprehensive catalogue of key manuscripts
- Fully illustrated in colour with many unpublished or hard-to-find images
Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rūm were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume. Meticulously analysing 15 beautifully decorated Arabic and Persian manuscripts, including Qur’ans, mirrors-for-princes, historical chronicles and Sufi works, Cailah Jackson traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Anatolia. She shows that the central Anatolian city of Konya, in particular, was a dynamic centre of artistic activity and that local Turcoman princes, Seljuk bureaucrats and Mevlevi dervishes all played important roles in manuscript production and patronage
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HIAA-sponsored discussion of online resources for the teaching of Islamic art
The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT). Click here to view this resource.
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Pierre Siméon, From Ordinary to Luxury. Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan. Studies on the Bumiller Collection I (ed. Verena Daiber), 2020
"From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight into the most diverse wares of daily life. Pierre Siméon’s expertise and hands-on experience as an archaeologist are invaluable assets for the knowledge of provenance and distribution of Iranian and Central Asian pottery. Apart from that, his study takes into account the works of our Russian colleagues, that have gone without adequate acknowledgement for decades due to the language barrier.
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